HCA Healthcare Inc (NYSE: HCA) on Tuesday, plunged -0.54% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $318.50. Within the past 52 weeks, HCA’s price has moved between $255.73 and $417.14.
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A company in the Healthcare sector has jumped its sales by 6.95% annually for the last half of the decade. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 15.45%. With a float of $182.34 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $254.52 million.
In an organization with 310000 employees, it is important to assess its efficiency. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 50.04%, operating margin of 15.08%, and the pretax margin is 12.55%.
HCA Healthcare Inc (HCA) Insider and Institutional Ownership
Observing investor behavior towards Medical Care Facilities industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of HCA Healthcare Inc is 28.01%, while institutional ownership is 64.09%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Nov 14 ’24, was worth 527,677. In this transaction SVP & Chief Ethics Officer of this company sold 1,474 shares at a rate of $357.99, taking the stock ownership to the 9,454 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Nov 14 ’24, when Company’s SVP-Internal Audit Services sold 3,897 for $350.00, making the entire transaction worth $1,363,950. This insider now owns 52,702 shares in total.
HCA Healthcare Inc (HCA) Latest Financial update
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 5.83 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 15.45% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 12.00% during the next five years compared to 12.21% growth over the previous five years of trading.
HCA Healthcare Inc (NYSE: HCA) Trading Performance Indicators
HCA Healthcare Inc (HCA) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 1.00 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.15. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 13.65.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 22.28, a number that is poised to hit 6.14 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 24.59 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of HCA Healthcare Inc (HCA)
Let’s dig in a bit further. During the last 5-days, its volume was 1.4 million. That was better than the volume of 1.2 million it reported in year-ago period. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 21.39%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 8.08.
During the past 100 days, HCA Healthcare Inc’s (HCA) raw stochastic average was set at 5.01%, which indicates a significant decrease from 21.97% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 12.14% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 26.06% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $361.92, while its 200-day Moving Average is $347.15. However, in the short run, HCA Healthcare Inc’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $320.55. Second resistance stands at $324.31. The third major resistance level sits at $328.84. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $312.26, it is likely to go to the next support level at $307.73. The third support level lies at $303.97 if the price breaches the second support level.
HCA Healthcare Inc (NYSE: HCA) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 80.24 billion based on 253,297K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 64,968 M and income totals 5,242 M. The company made 17,487 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 1,270 M in sales during its previous quarter.
